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FDA to require graphic images on cigarette packages to deter smoking

5:54 AM 11/11/2010
Vince Coglianese

It’s going to be harder to feel “alive with pleasure” with a photo of an emaciated man, dying of , staring back at you from your cigarette package.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will require such graphic images to be placed on the front and back of cigarette packages as part of a radical new campaign to keep teens from lighting up and to push longtime smokers to quit.

The FDA set a June 22, 2011 deadline for tobacco companies to redesign their packaging to include the images. They will also be required to place the jarring images on cigarette cartons.

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Tags: Cigarettes, Food and Drug Administration, Smoking, Tobacco
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  • h8mongr

    Enforce the laws against underage smoking, I have no prob with that. But leave the private businesses alone. If they lose customers, that’s their problem.

    These pictures are another way to screw with big business.
    Kids do not care about these pics. They will trade them like the other commentor said.
    Another band-aid.

    The FDA worries about this, but what about all those drug commercials that talk for 15 seconds about the pro’s to an FDA approved drug, then spend 2 minutes telling you how you’re going to suffer for taking it.
    Then after that’s over, a commercial from a law office will come on about ANOTHER class action lawsuit over some FDA APPROVED prescription drug…….gag.

  • h8mongr

    Wonder what he’ll come up with when one of the girls finds Obama’s pack lying around.
    Barry, you gots some ‘splainin to do.

    I hate smoke. Hate cigs. My mom died of throat cancer 44 years ago. BUT, I don’t pick on people for what they choose to do to they own dang self.
    Don’t smoke in my house or where I eat and I’m A..O..K

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